Triple
T19306898
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sir David Gill |
E482855
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope | Statement: [Sir David Gill, positionHeld, Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope Context triple: [Sir David Gill, positionHeld, Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope]
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A.
The Astronomer
"The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
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B.
Historia Coelestis Britannica
Historia Coelestis Britannica is a landmark star catalog compiled in the early 18th century that systematically recorded the positions of thousands of stars and laid foundations for modern observational astronomy.
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C.
Institutio astronomica
Institutio astronomica is a 17th-century introductory astronomy textbook by Pierre Gassendi that helped popularize and systematize contemporary astronomical knowledge in a humanist, educational format.
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D.
Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed
Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed is a biographical and historical study of England’s first Astronomer Royal, written by Francis Baily and notable for its detailed reconstruction of Flamsteed’s life, work, and conflicts within the early Royal Observatory.
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E.
La révolution astronomique
La révolution astronomique is a seminal historical study by Alexandre Koyré that analyzes the profound conceptual and philosophical transformations brought about by the Scientific Revolution in astronomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope Target entity description: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope was a senior British colonial astronomical post responsible for directing major observational and surveying work from the Royal Observatory at the Cape in South Africa.
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A.
The Astronomer
"The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
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B.
Historia Coelestis Britannica
Historia Coelestis Britannica is a landmark star catalog compiled in the early 18th century that systematically recorded the positions of thousands of stars and laid foundations for modern observational astronomy.
-
C.
Institutio astronomica
Institutio astronomica is a 17th-century introductory astronomy textbook by Pierre Gassendi that helped popularize and systematize contemporary astronomical knowledge in a humanist, educational format.
-
D.
Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed
Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed is a biographical and historical study of England’s first Astronomer Royal, written by Francis Baily and notable for its detailed reconstruction of Flamsteed’s life, work, and conflicts within the early Royal Observatory.
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E.
La révolution astronomique
La révolution astronomique is a seminal historical study by Alexandre Koyré that analyzes the profound conceptual and philosophical transformations brought about by the Scientific Revolution in astronomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69d8e8d04d5c8190baa816986f2b1d1e |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e604ca81e88190a276064f5f8dfd3a |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:49 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m.